Limits on skinning, can't touch model?

[BaDMoN-TB[WoH]]

I have a question, when you make a skin, can you only edit the texture? I've seen cases where people actually take sumthing off from the model and i was wondering how to do that. Example: I want to take the big long ears off the human priest, or make his ears small enough to look like a normal human, how would i do this?

 

[warden13]

I think it is modelling.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Alpha (making transparent) areas around there. The models have generally two types of material: team colored (usually in parts of the chests) and transparent (usually in head part)

 

[BaDMoN-TB[WoH]]

does any one know forsure what it is with the alpha thing? I've heard about it but can some one plz explain it all? =\

 

[Mechanical Man]

Is basically a layer which is at the bottom. The upper layer is actually your texture and you use eraser tool to show the parts of alpha channel and those parts will be transparent/team colored ingame. I hope you know about layers.

 

[warden13]

How can I see layers? Which programs must I use?(dont say ulead or photoshop)
Or just look here and make this working for me http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39491

 

[Mechanical Man]

Photoshop, Paintshop, GIMP, ...

Just do not use paint to make skins.

 

[camel's_hump]

For alpha you do not exactly see layers. For instance in photoshop to alpha all you do is erase the skin and make sure it has a transparent background to alpha it. You also have to save it as the right file type, I recommend .tga.

 

[Mazurite]

You could do that.. But does anyone here not think it would be easier to download wc3modeleditor and just completely remove the ears or whatever it is your attempting to remove.

 

[War3_Editor]

What if you wanted to add some team color without alphaing out the area selected?

 

[camel's_hump]

Team color will only show if the area is alphaed and that part of the model is team color.

 

[War3_Editor]

But, how do you know if that area does have the team color?

 

[camel's_hump]

By alphaing it and if it becomes invisible then it doesn't, and if you see team color it does. Really this is not a difficult concept to understand. Try experimenting around before you ask such simple questions.